On whether fatigue is affecting the group or if the confidence of the team will help the players to overcome it:

«Tell me which of the last two months was not a derby game for us. They have all been big games for us. Every three days we play a derby and sometimes a «super» derby. I would rather call it an important game and a nice game to come. So, from our side, it’s up to us to deal with tomorrow’s game ourselves; we must show a lot of concentration. Let’s move on, come out on the pitch with energy and fight for the victory.»

On the players absent:

«Biseswar and Vieirinha are not available for the game against AEK. For Mitrita we are still not certain. The training is over and we will see tonight if he will be ready to take part. We have played a set of consecutive games and we will have to play more. There will be times when we will play a nice game and achieve our goal quickly, but there will be games where we will not be so good and in these conditions we must not lose our winning mentality, we must fight in every phase of play, at all times during the match.»

On the return of Oliveira and Colak’s goal against Olympiacos:

«It’s not a problem because we have a game every three days and everyone will play. It would be a problem if we played every Sunday. Now, both the coach and the players know that we can have options in this position now. There is excitement among the players as they all know that they will play a part in almost every game.»

On whether he expects surprises in the Toumba derby:

«This is the beauty of the Play Offs and the competition. AEK is a good team that will definitely want to win; they have good and aggressive players. In the last few games AEK has shown more intensity. The games with AEK are always interesting and I believe we will see that again tomorrow/ I hope everyone enjoy’s it as well.»